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Fintech Focus For December 31, 2020
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 6:48pm | 1939Quote To Start The Day: Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings. Source: Jonathan Huie One Big Thing In Fintech: In a recent outlook for North American and European fintech, Fitch Ratings acknowledged that the sector fundamentals should remain resilient next year, despite pandemic-...
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Fintech Focus For December 22, 2020
Monday, December 21, 2020 - 6:40pm | 1383Quote To Start The Day: Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Source: Maya Angelou One Big Thing In Fintech: Instead of focusing on growth at all costs, fintech startups have been drawing a path to profitability. It doesn’t mean that they’ll have a positive bottom line at the...
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iPhone 'Zero Click' Vulnerability Exploited By Infamous NSO Group To Hack 3 Dozen Al Jazeera Journalists, Researchers Say
Monday, December 21, 2020 - 3:17am | 450Three dozen Al Jazeera journalists using Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhones were hacked using spyware made by an Israeli company. What Happened: The attack was allegedly ordered by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, according to a report published by researchers at the University of...
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Fintech Focus For December 11, 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 5:51pm | 2295Quote To Start The Day: US President Donald Trump and his backers, having been stymied dozens of times by judges and elections officials across the country, are confident one last-ditch lawsuit will overturn his election loss. “All I ask for is people with wisdom and with courage, that...
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Fintech Focus For December 3, 2020
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 6:25pm | 1957Quote To Start The Day: Coming hard on the heels of the trade war, the Covid shock will intensify pressure for the diversification and localization of supply chains — just not yet. A year spent in emergency response mode is not a year when projects requiring detailed planning, significant...
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Fintech Focus For December 1, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020 - 5:07pm | 1524Quote To Start The Day: Whatever you do, do it well. Source: Walt Disney One Big Thing In Fintech: Business information provider S&P Global Inc agreed on Monday to pay $44 billion in stock to acquire IHS Markit Ltd in the year’s biggest acquisition that will create a new data powerhouse...
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Fintech Focus For October 20, 2020
Monday, October 19, 2020 - 6:03pm | 1774Quote Of The Day: Life is trying things to see if they work. - Ray Bradbury Fintech Movers: Dozens of brokerage log-ins are for sale on the dark web with portfolios ranging in the low thousands to a half million dollars. - CNBC Troutwood intros app for stock investment. Acorns helping unemployed...
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Fintech Focus For October 9, 2020
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 6:04pm | 2287Quote Of The Day: The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Fintech Movers: Electronic trading giant Citadel Securities will bolster its already huge presence at the New York Stock Exchange by buying the NYSE market-making business of smaller...
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Fintech Focus For October 6, 2020
Monday, October 5, 2020 - 5:55pm | 2010Quote Of The Day: Don’t be afraid of Covid. - President Trump Fintech Movers: From providing digital payment solutions in channeling electricity subsidies and social safety nets for workforces, to becoming an investment platform for government debt securities, fintech firms assist...
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Asian Markets In Green As US China Trade Talks Make Progress
Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - 2:30am | 345Markets across Asia Pacific traded in the green on Wednesday as the U.S. and China said they are close to signing a phase one trade deal. What Happened China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on Tuesday that the two countries resolved some mutual concerns over the trade...
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Report: Egypt's Ousted President Morsi Dies During Trial
Monday, June 17, 2019 - 12:40pm | 130Egypt's former President Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the army in 2013, has died after fainting in a courtroom at the age of 67, according to state media reports, the BBC said Monday. Morsi was a figure in the Islamist movement Muslim Brotherhood, which has been banned in Egypt...
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Market Plummets After Turkey Shoots Down Russian Jet; Putin Calls Action 'Stab In The Back'
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 9:36am | 470U.S. futures plummeted on Tuesday, indicating equities are in store for a large sell-off. Prior to Tuesday's opening bell, Dow futures were lower by more than 100 points. Geographical tension took the center stage after Turkish F-16 fighter jets were said to have shot down a Russian...
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Time Warner Cable to Carry Al Jazeera America
Friday, October 25, 2013 - 7:33am | 646Reversing an August decision to drop the Qatar-owned network when it took over Current, Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) agreed Thursday to carry Al Jazeera America according to The New York Times. This deal provides the broadcaster exposure to millions of additional households, first in New York...
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Taliban Government Offered bin Laden for Trial to US Before 9/11 -Al Jazeera
Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 7:35am | 151A a senior aide to the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar. says the Taliban government in Afghanistan offered to present Osama bin Laden for trial prior to September 11, 2001, but the US government showed no interest. Taliban's last foreign minister, Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, told Al Jazeera that his...
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Pakistan Arrests A Yemeni Leader Of Al-Qaeda, Al Jazeera Says -Bloomberg
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 9:40am